Category: News

IT leaders worried about debt

Posted on June 16, 2021 by - News

More than 69 percent of IT leaders identify technical debt as a major threat to their companies’ ability to innovate, according to a new report from OutSystems.

In OutSysem’s latest report, “The Growing Threat of Technical Debt examines the cost of technical debt facing businesses across industries and geographies.

OutSystems CEO and Founder Paulo Rosado, said the combination of old code along with the new generation of mobile apps, stack applications, and SaaS sprawl are robbing organisations of resources, time, and the ability to innovate.

“This report proves that technical debt will continue to compound, and requires a new approach to move past it and innovate at a pace and scale for true competitive advantage.”

Ensono appoints Birch as new GM

Posted on June 15, 2021 by - Moving People, News

Cloudy Ensono has appointed Hannah Birch as General Manager (GM) and Deputy Managing Director for the European business.

In this role, she will drive the European growth strategy as Ensono looks to use the investment from new owner KKR and its recent acquisition of cloud-native consultancy Amido.

Ensono’s, Managing Director, Europe Barney Taylor said: “With our recent acquisition of Amido and KKR’s investment in Ensono, we have significant momentum and an accelerated opportunity to invest and grow in both the UK and European markets. Hannah is the right person to drive our growth ambition and to continue to build on our reputation as a leader in the technology space.”

Birch joins Ensono from Accenture where she led the company’s UK Technology Business for Insurance and was a member of the Technology Leadership Team for UK & Ireland.

Delphix appoints Barrett as senior vice president

Posted on June 15, 2021 by - Moving People, News

Delphix, which works on programmable data infrastructure, announced the appointment of Steve Barrett as Senior Vice President of International Operations. Based in the UK, Barrett will be responsible for leading revenue operations for both EMEA and APJ.

Delphix Worldwide Field Operations President Steven Chung said that Barrett’s track record of leading teams to deliver consistent performance and drive customer engagement will be a key advantage for us as we continue to pioneer data automation.

“In addition to his domain expertise in DevOps, enterprise apps and data centres, Barrett’s focus on employee engagement and passion for encouraging diversity, equity and inclusion make us very excited to welcome him to the Delphix team.”

Barrett has 20 years of experience in enterprise software and SaaS companies. He joins Delphix from PagerDuty where he led the European business from early stages to post IPO as Vice President of EMEA.

Vodafone expands connectivity portfolio to channel

Posted on June 14, 2021 by - News

Vodafone has expanded its partner channel to include SoGEA and FTTP for business customers.

With traditional phone lines becoming redundant by 2025, Vodafone is now allowing SoGEA – Single Order Generic Ethernet Access – provides one connection, all through the Internet, with no need for a separate telephone line. Businesses will have everything they need for home and broadband connectivity in a single order. The other method will be FTTP – Fibre to the Premise – removes the need for traditional street cabinets and copper wires and enables the fastest available broadband speeds. It allows businesses to connect broadband directly, without a traditional phone line.

Midwich opens new experience centre

Posted on June 14, 2021 by - News

Specialist audio visual distributor, Midwich Group,has officially opened Innovation House, its 50,000 square-foot experience, training and event facility in Bracknell (UK).

Home to five distributors – Midwich, PSCo, Holdan, Invision and Sound Technology – Innovation House features the UK’s largest multi-brand experience centre showcasing more than 200 AV, Unified Communication & Collaboration (UC&C), broadcast, smart home and rental solutions from 50 manufacturers. 

Egress swallows Aquilai

Posted on June 14, 2021 by - News

Security outfit Egress has announced the acquisition of Aquilai, an anti-phishing provider based in Cheltenham.

For those who came in late, Aquilai uses machine learning and natural processing technology that stops targeted email attacks, including business email compromise (BEC), spear-phishing and impersonation attempts.

The acquisition aims to strengthen Egress’ Intelligent Email Security platform, helping the offering to better protect against the complex issue of insider risk.

Egress said the combination of the two companies will deliver increased protection against all inbound cyber attacks targeting employees, as well as real-time outbound email security for shared data, including inadvertent data loss and email encryption.

Nutanix and HPE cuddle up closer

Posted on June 11, 2021 by - News

Nutanix and HPE widened their partnership to accelerate hybrid cloud and multi-cloud adoption by offering Nutanix Era, multi-database operations and management solution, bundled with HPE ProLiant servers, as a service through HPE GreenLake.

The cloud service lets customers to deploy applications and databases quickly and benefit from the agile, elastic, and pay-per-use capabilities of the cloud while gaining the governance, visibility and compliance of an on-premises environment.

HPE GreenLake Cloud Services, senior vice president and general manager Keith White, said that customers want to simplify database operations and management to move away from IT siloes that can often lead to higher maintenance costs, security risks, and lack of flexibility to deploy and run solutions.

Synaxon renews partnership with Integra

Posted on June 11, 2021 by - News

Synaxon UK has renewed its strategic partnership with Integra under which partners and members of each organisation will be able to access the benefits of the other at preferential rates.

Under this agreement Synaxon partners can sign-up as members of Integra, gaining access to the company’s preferential trading terms with leading office products distributors, such as Antalis UK and VOW Wholesale, and direct with over 100 suppliers. Synaxon partners will also have access to Integra’s own-brand range of Initiative office products, which are widely recognised for great quality and value.

Integra members will receive discounted Synaxon UK fees, giving them access to stock and availability from more than 30 IT distributors via the EGIS procurement platform. They will also benefit from exclusive offers available from Synaxon Distribution and the support resources the group offers to help resellers develop their managed services business.

SnapLogic adds to its Partner Connect Programme

Posted on June 11, 2021 by - News

SnapLogic announced the launch of its new and improved Partner Connect Programme.

The idea is to help global technology, consulting, and OEM partners capitalise on the growing market opportunities for enterprise automation and integration services, a part of the $50 billion application infrastructure and middleware software market.

The new programme lets partners differ themselves through vertical and functional specialisations, letting  them to communicate their value to customers, while using SnapLogic’s partner marketing and digital infrastructure tools to collaborate on new business.

In addition to supporting partners by vertical specialisation, the programme also breaks partner expertise out by three main functional areas – Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) for core application integration, data integration, and API management; enterprise automation for end-to-end business process orchestration; and cloud modernisation for legacy upgrade projects. This way, the right partners will be brought in to support the right customer use cases.

Cohesity launches Backup as a Service

Posted on June 10, 2021 by - News

Cohesity announced the launch of its Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering, DataProtect delivered as a Service, to customers in Europe.

Hosted on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) in Europe, the offering gives enterprise and mid-size customers a way to back up data, eliminate silos, and drive down capital expenditure costs, while Cohesity takes care of managing the underlying infrastructure.

Cohesity DataProtect delivered as a Service includes support for an array of workloads including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and compute infrastructure, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Microsoft 365 SaaS applications, and data sources such as VMware, Network Attached Storage (NAS), and SQL Server.

Devo whips up a future cloud report

Posted on June 10, 2021 by - News

Cloudy security outfit Devo Technology has announced the results of a report assessing the current state and pace of change regarding enterprise cloud transformation initiatives and the ramifications on teams running a Security Operations Center (SOC).

The snappily titled report, “Beyond Cloud Adoption: How to Embrace the Cloud for Security and Business Benefits”, found that the global pandemic accelerated business transformation far past the cloud tipping point and uncovered severe and far-reaching implications for security teams. It also revealed that forward-thinking and high performing organisations took this opportunity to face the challenges head-on. Their businesses are far better for it—with more than half of high performing organisations seeing gains in capabilities and visibility.

The findings come from a survey conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) comprising 500 IT and security personnel in the ‘SOC chain of command’ at enterprise-class (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) organisations in North America and Western Europe in January 2021.

Thames Water wants two resellers

Posted on June 10, 2021 by - News

Thames Water wants at least two resellers to form an IT hardware and software, software renewals and software asset management framework worth an estimated total of £120 million.

The framework is split into two lots. The first focused on hardware services which is worth an estimated £10 million. The second lot concentrates on software services and is valued at an estimated £110 million, both excluding VAT.

Requirements under lot two include software reseller services, software license management, maintenance and support renewals and software disposal, and a maximum of three resellers.

Thames Water says it is looking for “value-for-money of reseller services, including access to special bid pricing; supply provision; speed and accuracy of delivery; issue resolution; OEM relationships and accreditations and the capability to execute projects and provide added-value services”.

Semiconductor supply crunch could stop sales growth

Posted on June 9, 2021 by - News

The Network Security and Data Centre Appliance market experienced robust growth as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to loosen its grip, but the ongoing semiconductor supply crunch has also ensnared the Network Security and Data Center Appliance market, according to a new report.

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro while the worst of the pandemic appears behind us, the world is now tracking the effects of the chip crunch

Dell’Oro Network Security and Data Center Appliances Research Director Mauricio Sanchez said this quarter’s growth reflects increasing enterprise confidence and the need to invest in critical network-based security technologies.

“We estimate an impact of $300 million in 1Q 2021 caused by some product lead times tripling to eighteen weeks.”

 

RangeMe launches in the UK

Posted on June 9, 2021 by - News

Product discovery and sourcing platform launched in the UK today. Buyers at British retailers will now be able to source over 750,000 products and connect with more than 200,000 suppliers to fill their shopping aisles and online stores with curated products meeting consumer demand. Buyers at high street chain LloydsPharmacy are currently partnering with RangeMe.

RangeMe first launched in 2013 and is used today by over 12,000 retailers in the US, including Walmart, Ulta Beauty, Walgreens, and Albertsons. It has quickly established itself as the industry leader for retail product discovery and sourcing by becoming the world’s largest source of brands and products purchased by buyers in the US.

Nutanix expands partner programme

Posted on June 9, 2021 by - News

Nutanix is launching the Elevate Service Provider Programme which it says will spruce up its existing flavour to its worldwide partners.

The company said that the programme empowers service provider partners – including managed and cloud service providers – to build highly differentiated hybrid and multi-cloud

The idea is to encourage service providers to take advantage of  increasingly individualised customer demands while staying profitable

The Nutanix Elevate Service Provider Programme claims to help service providers improve margins and agility by addressing the lock-in and minimum commitment requirements encountered in traditional service provider vendor models and programmes.